UPDATE: OUR NEW PUBLIC LIBRARY IS GETTING CLOSER
We need your financial support NOW to CLOSE THE GAP in 2016!
Once completed, the library will operate with no net increase to taxpayers:
- The 1% of property taxes that is allocated to operate the library is mandated by state and federal law and has been adequate to operate the library in the past.
- Independent assessments have confirmed that operating the new building will cost equal to (or less than) the usage fee currently paid to Cranbury School.
- No additional library staff are required to operate the new facility.
Cranbury needs a library and community center to anchor the downtown area:
- Sharing a space with the school library no longer meets the public needs of our community.
- Cranbury needs a freestanding public library that can serve as the “community living room,” safe learning space, and technology center for the town (plus, space for books and e-books!).
- The new library will have sufficient space for adults, children, and teens to work, relax, gather, and enjoy programming in a comfortable environment, during both daytime and evening hours.
Cranbury School deserves a dedicated school library:
- The Cranbury Education Foundation is planning to support reconfiguration of the current library space to become a multi-media center for the school that can provide unconstrained access for students to develop research skills critical to 21st-century public education.